slum
noun
Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
are slumming
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present progressiveof slum.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I got the President and the former Secretary of State to do a tweet promo, so they are slumming it.
From Salon ● May 9, 2019
It’s why maxdalury and Birdwings are slumming it in a $20 50-50 competition with me.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2016
Benfica are top of the Portuguese league, Valencia are third in Spain, and only Atlético are slumming it in 10th.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010
In America there are slumming societies and total abstinence leagues; but I never knew any body of men who had the courage to stand up in the highway and preach their gospel to passers-by.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
